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Air Liquide sells Hydrogenics stake to Cummins

Air Liquide SA (Paris) has sold its 19% stake in the fuel cell and hydrogen production technologies provider Hydrogenics Corporation to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) , who owns the remaining 81% of the company. With a large portfolio of technologies,…

Topsoe to lead Front Fuels sustainable aviation fuels project in Denmark

 Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that it will lead the FrontFuel project, pioneering highly efficient Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production from CO2, water, and renewable electricity Topsoe will receive a 26.9 million DKK grant from the EUDP to fund the…

BASF and Yara to evaluate low-carbon blue ammonia project on U.S. Gulf Coast

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Yara Clean Ammonia (YCA; Oslo, Norway) are collaborating on a joint study to develop and construct a world-scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility with carbon capture in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. The companies are…

TotalEnergies partners with Petronas and Mitsui on a carbon storage hub in Malaysia

TotalEnergies SE (Paris) announces the signature of an agreement with Petronas and Mitsui to develop a carbon storage project in Southeast Asia. The partners will evaluate several CO2 storage sites in the Malay Basin, including both saline aquifers and depleted…

NOVA Chemicals and Plastic Energy launch feasibility study on advanced recycling

NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) and Plastic Energy Ltd. (London) have entered into an agreement to explore the feasibility of developing a pyrolysis-driven advanced recycling facility in the Sarnia, Ontario, region. If constructed, the facility would be the largest…

Johnson Matthey partners with Diffusion Alloys to boost supply chain for low-carbon hydrogen

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London), a global leader in sustainable technologies, and Diffusion Alloys, a specialist diffusion coatings producer, have joined forces to scale-up production and enable the increasing demand for low carbon hydrogen used to reduce global carbon emissions.…

BASF opens co-located battery production and recycling center in Schwarzheide

BASF SE (Ludiwgshafen, Germany) celebrated the opening of Europe’s first co-located center of battery material production and battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The inauguration of a state-of-the-art production facility for high-performance cathode active materials and the unveiling ceremony for a…

ACC chemical industry outlook shows slowing production and regulatory challenges

Following a strong year, U.S. production has slowed going into the second half of this year as demand for chemicals softens and a risk of recession remains high, according to the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Economic Mid-Year…

Industrial control system vendors reportedly appear on ransomware attack list

Siemens Energy (Munich, Germany; www.siemens-energy.com) and Schneider Electric (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.se.com), two vendors of industrial control systems for critical infrastructure facilities, were reportedly among a group of companies and organizations that have been added to a list of ransomware cyberattack…

Digital Transformation ‘Gamechangers’ Recognized at 2023 Connected Plant Conference

A group of individuals and teams were honored for their achievements in furthering the digital transformation in the power generation and chemical process industries (CPI) at the 2023 Connected Plant Conference (www.connectedplantconference.com) in New Orleans, La. on Sunday.   Chosen…